Rome's next reason: heretics of every age rejected traditions — so contempt marks heresy
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Beyond the texts, Rome argues from reason.
First: heretics in every age despised traditions.
So rejecting tradition is treated as a heresy-mark.
They list Valentinians, Marcionites, Donatists, Arians, Eunomians, Nestorius, Eutyches, Aerians, and more.
Latin
XXII. Sed praeter Scripturae sacrae testimonia, quibus Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae traditionis non scriptae authoritatem fulcire annituntur, in eundem finem proferunt argumenta quaedam ex ratione ducta. Et primo quidem argumentum ducunt ex consensu haereticorum in traditionibus contemnendis. Nam, inquiunt, haeretici omnium aetatum traditiones rejecerunt. Ideoque traditionum contemptus, & rejectio est veluti haereseos nota & indicium. Quod autem haeretici traditiones semper rejecerint, probant per inductionem & exemplum Valentinianorum, Marcionitarum, Donatistarum, Arianorum, Eunomianorum, Nestorii, Eutychetis, Aerianorum, & aliorum quorundam.